finder
nounEtymology
From Middle English findere. By surface analysis, find + -er.
- inherited from findere
Definitions
One who finds or discovers something
One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.
- Finders keepers, losers weepers.
- The finder of treasure trove owns it against the landowner and everyone else except the true owner.
A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.
- Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune.
A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living.
- Even the Whitechapel meat-market is less the scene of prey, for it is a series of shops, while Leadenhall presents many stalls, and the finders seem loath to enter shops without some plausible pretext.
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A surname from German.
The neighborhood
Derived
Albada finder, comet-finder, ditchfinder, factfinder, fact-finder, faultfinder, finderlist, finder of fact, finderscope, fire finder, fishfinder, gold-finder, key finder, object finder, pathfinder, pure finder, radio direction finder, rangefinder, range finder, rootfinder, statefinder, stud finder, ugly-finder, ugly finder, viewfinder, wayfinder, witchfinder, witch-finder
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for finder. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA